The inability of OP to go from a list of three lists to three separate lists is tangential to the question and why we can't have nice things.
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kojiroJan 19 '13 at 21:09

@Mike also, if you want to be pedantic about what OP asked for, he asked for two lists of barewords and one list of numbers. Unless there are objects named Ben, John, Harry, cat, dog, and hamster already in scope it's unlikely this is actually what he meant. I think @NPE's (and my) responses were reasonable.
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kojiroJan 19 '13 at 21:17